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USB Flash Drive on Wii

BendystrawsBendystraws Registered User regular
edited November 2007 in Games and Technology
Is it possible to format a USB flash drive in order to use it to save games on a Wii? I have a Galaxies save on my friends Wii I want to transfer to mine. Problem is, we dont have an SD handy and dont really want to buy one. I have a 2 gig flash drive which can hold more saves anyway. Is this possible?

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Unfortunately it isn't possible as of yet. You'll have to get an SD card in order to do it.

    I believe you can save it to the Wii-Remote, however.

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  • TigressTigress Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    The good thing is: The Wii can read any SD drive, so you don't have to buy the ones that say Nintendo on it. My husband and I bought a 2GB drive and it works perfectly. You just have to format it.

    It can read USB drives (used them to show convention pictures to my husband), but I haven't tried saving games to them.

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  • EvanderEvander Disappointed Father Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    they make 2 gig SD cards, so the flash drives you already own aren't bigger than that

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  • powersurgepowersurge Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I wish there was a way to play VC games off SD cards or USB drives. My Wii is starting to get full and I don't even have that many games. :x

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    powersurge wrote: »
    I wish there was a way to play VC games off SD cards or USB drives. My Wii is starting to get full and I don't even have that many games. :x


    How? I have maybe 13 or something and I'm pretty sure it's not getting full...

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  • UncleSporkyUncleSporky Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Tigress wrote: »
    The good thing is: The Wii can read any SD drive, so you don't have to buy the ones that say Nintendo on it. My husband and I bought a 2GB drive and it works perfectly. You just have to format it.

    It can read USB drives (used them to show convention pictures to my husband), but I haven't tried saving games to them.
    Gotta be careful about this, it can't read just anything. IIRC the cards that are SDHC (high capacity, more than 2 gigs) won't necessarily work. Even some 2 gig cards will not work, but mine does.

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  • yalborapyalborap Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    slash000 wrote: »
    powersurge wrote: »
    I wish there was a way to play VC games off SD cards or USB drives. My Wii is starting to get full and I don't even have that many games. :x


    How? I have maybe 13 or something and I'm pretty sure it's not getting full...

    Channel-wise, 38 games would do it, if you have all the non-VC channels.

    We're nearing the one-year mark.

    You would've hit 'full' a while ago if you bought one VC game a week(a reasonable cost, seeing as the most expensive one on there is 12 bucks).

    Space-wise, it gets a good bit trickier to figure out.

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